Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Leadership is influence.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

It is right to give every man his due.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

All of my music is honest.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.